The last suspended Jean-Kévin Augutin scored a Joker goal par excellence to perfect RB Leipzig’s second victory of the season in the Bundesliga. The 21-year-old Frenchman scored six minutes on Wednesday evening, after he had come onto the field for the unlucky German national striker Timo Werner, to the 2-0 (1-0) final against VfB Stuttgart. The first goal in front of 32,187 spectators was scored in the Red Bull Arena by defence chief Willi Orban in the injury time of the first half (45.+1).

With eight points, the Red Bulls climbed to eighth place in the league before the explosive duel next Saturday at 1899 Hoffenheim with designated RB coach Julian Nagelsmann. The victorious VfB remains under coach Tayfun Korkut with two points table penultimate.

It wasn’t a glittering start, even though the RB fans did not join the Germany-wide mood boycott and in contrast to the 1700 initially silent VfB supporters cheered on their team loudly. On the grass it remained rather calm on both sides for the time being. The VfB put the Leipziger under pressure early on, undermined the feared fast game of the RB team, in which the two newcomers compared to the starting eleven at the 1-1 away against Eintracht Frankfurt mainly initially set accents.

On the left defender’s post, international Marcel Halstenberg was back in the starting line-up for the first time since 17 December 2017. Like Nordi Mukiele on the right, the 26-year-old was on the offensive again and again. After his suspension, the Frenchman returned to the starting eleven for disciplinary offences, and Augustinm first had to sit on the bench. Nevertheless, Rangnick offered a top-class offensive – at least nominally in Werner, Emil Forsberg, Yussuf Poulsen and Marcel Sabitzer.

Werner in particular was without luck. After a perfect pass from Mukiele, he could not place the ball from close range in the VfB box (23.). His shot after a solo worth seeing (31.) was not enough to overcome Ron-Robert Zieler in the VfB goal. So defensive boss Orban had to go in the best dusting manner. The Stuttarter, who after half an hour allowed the Leipzigers much more, clarified after a corner only insufficiently, Kevin Kampl pulled like some minutes before from the distance. Zieler could not hold the ball and also let it slide into the middle, where captain Orban was on the spot. The Stuttgart team only had one chance in the first half with Mario Gomez (37). Check out Fantasino to get more bonuses.

When it looked as if Werner had scored his 50th Bundesliga goal, the video assistant slowed down the cheering of the 22-year-old and the fans in the second half. Before he had started his solo in the 58th minute, Werner had accepted the ball in offside position. In the 74th minute Rangnick took the goalscorer out and brought Augustin. And seconds after his substitution he almost added the desired second goal, but the ball bounced back from the inner post into the field. Shortly after, he was in the goal, the ball, and Augustin cheered.

Borussia Dortmund is Bavarian hunter number one again after a shooting festival. The strongly improved team of coach Lucien Favre celebrated a 7:0 (2:0) victory against 1. FC Nuremberg, who also deserved a 7:0 (2:0) victory at this level, and reduced the gap to the Bundesliga leader from Munich to two points as second in the table.

Jacob Bruun Larsen (9.), Marco Reus (32. and 58.), debutant Achraf Hakimi (49.), Manuel Akanji (74.), Jadon Sancho (85.) and Julian Weigl (88.) scored for the eight-time German soccer champion, who had once again competed without Mario Götze. After their second defeat of the season, the harmless guests have been waiting for a victory in Dortmund since November 1990.

Like last Saturday, Götze was not in the squad at TSG Hoffenheim (1:1), the 2014 World Cup hero has not played a single minute in the Bundesliga this season. But Hakimi made his debut in the BVB jersey. The loan from Real Madrid was used as right-back for Lukasz Piszczek and developed a lot of pressure on his side with Christian Pulisic.

Christian Pulisic Honors

Club
Borussia Dortmund

DFB-Pokal: 2016–17

Individual

U.S. Soccer Young Male Athlete of the Year: 2016

UEFA Champions League Breakthrough XI: 2016

U.S. Soccer Male Athlete of the Year: 2017

Pulisic also prepared the lead in front of 75,700 spectators. He put the ball through exemplarily for Bruun Larsen, who scored his first Bundesliga goal. Two minutes later, Reus, standing freestanding in front of Nuremberg goalkeeper Fabian Bredlow, awarded the 2:0.

After the last bumpy appearances the actions of the BVB against the Franconians were much more fluid. Through a few position changes and runs into the depths, the Dortmund team managed again and again to tear holes into the defensive of the guests, who had started in a 5-3-2 system. After a nice interplay between Pulisic and Maximilian Philipp, Reus increased. The captain’s shot was deflected by Georg Margreitter.

The Nürnberger kept their defensive basic order also despite the backlog and set only from time to time needle punches. Virgil Misidjan only hit the outer net (18th) during the most dangerous action of the guests in the first round.

The Dortmunders, who had almost 75 percent ball possession in the first 45 minutes, were not in danger even after the change. Hakimi successfully finished a counterattack over the strong Reus with a nice flat shot. After playing together with Bruun Larsen, Reus scored his 100th compulsory goal for BVB from close range to 4-0.

In view of the clear lead, Favre took Reus and Axel Witsel off the pitch after a good hour to save energy for the guest performance at Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday. But the superiority of the BVB remained unchanged. Central defender Akanji scored the fifth goal. Casinopop has a very nice and bright graphics, also it still new in the industry.

The protests of the football fans could be felt in all Bundesliga stadiums: With a mood boycott against the increasing commercialisation, the supporters of most clubs set an example and remained silent in the first 20 minutes of play in the arenas. But they also expressed their displeasure with banners and banners.

The Bayern fans pulled up a poster in front of the South Curve – opened like a letter, addressed to the headquarters of the German Football Association (DFB) in Frankfurt/Main: “Dear DFB officials, we hereby ban all facilities and buildings at Säbener Strasse 51-57 in 81547 Munich as well as events organised by FC Bayern München e.V. in the Municipal Stadium on Grünwalder Strasse and all home games played by FC Bayern München e.V. in the Fröttmaninger Arena. Yours sincerely”.

On Tuesday evening, four ultra fan groups from Werder Bremen had made the start of the “action match day” in the early Bundesliga evening match against Hertha BSC. Two long banners in green and white stretched across the east curve of the Weser stadium at the whistle of referee Guido Winkmann. “The other banner read: “Football is for you and me – not for fucking Pay-TV.” The criticism was directed at the referee.

The criticism was clearly directed against the TV-friendly kick-off times, which are a thorn in the side of the “active” fans for several reasons. After all, vacation days have to be sacrificed for visiting an away match during the week. The cheering for the people of Bremen was much quieter than usual. “I was afraid that all spectators would hear me,” said Werder coach Florian Kohfeldt.

At the other games, too, there was usually a lot of calm and restraint in the first few minutes. “That was already a different atmosphere. The fans just decided that way, we have to accept that,” said Bayern defender Niklas Süle.

Niklas Süle Honours

Club

Bayern Munich

DFL-Supercup: 2017, 2018

Bundesliga: 2017–18

International

Germany

Summer Olympic Games: Silver Medal, 2016

FIFA Confederations Cup: 2017

Individual

Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2016–17

The Munich South Curve underpinned the “letter” shown with further banners: “You will hear from us – or not!” and after the restart “Interim report for the DFB: foreign marketing: truant. Monday games: insufficient. Sports jurisdiction: Missing the point. Fan freedom: insufficient. Transfer endangered.”

With “No to German Football Lobbyism” (DFL written in red), “You will hear from us – or not”, the North Curve in Hannover (1:3 against Hoffenheim) drew attention to itself. At the match between Freiburg and Schalke (1:0) the fans of the hosts were silent, while the Knappen-Anhang supported from the 5th minute on. PlayOJO has no wagering requirements, money back guaranteed and has a fast payouts as well.

But not only Schalke’s fans broke the “vow of silence”: RB Leipzig got on Wednesday from his fans against VfB Stuttgart as well as from the first minute on support like Eintracht Frankfurt at the same time with Borussia Mönchengladbach. The FSV Mainz 05 supporters also renounced protest actions against VfL Wolfsburg in the initial phase.

Also in the 2nd league it was very quiet for the time being. At the Bundesliga relegator 1. FC Cologne, the supporters followed the first 20 minutes of the game against FC Ingolstadt largely silent. In the RheinEnergieStadion only isolated cheers of the fans were to be heard – it was similar in the other second league stadiums. After 20 minutes, the fans ended their protests and returned to normality.